A Panel of R Educators
June 10, 2025
These slides available at: https://pm0kjp.github.io/rmedicine_2025_education_panel/slides/r_education_panel.html
Panel convener: Joy Payton
Additional Panelists:
We’ll have a few questions to get started but we want to engage with you, so please use chat liberally!
Raymond R. Balise PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
learnr and gradethis as well as synchronous instruction using tools like zoom and Posit.Cloud.Joy Payton, MS
(For 2 more weeks) Manager of Data Education, Arcus Initiative, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Vibe coding and using LLMs to write code is enjoying a lot of press these days. Is it still necessary to teach people to write R code, and if so, how much?
The title of this panel mentions “interesting times”. What is making your work as an educator particularly interesting these days, whether that’s good or bad?
What are some of the tools and methods you find most effective to get people to use their skills and retain their use?